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Diversification of Health : Politics of Large-Scale Cooperation in Nutrition Science.

Complex problems and ambitious goals are often thought to become easier by enlarging and diversifying the group of experts dealing with them. As a result, these complex entities are fragmented into smaller ones that can be dealt with by single laboratories. Bart Penders ventured into nutrition scien...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Penders, Bart
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, 2014.
Colección:Science studies.
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  • Cover The Diversification of Health ; Contents; Preface ; 1. Making Knowledge and Norms in Large Scale Science: The Case of Nutrigenomics ; 1.1. Big Science on the Agenda ; 1.2. Size is not the Issue ; 1.3. Entangled Science on the Agenda ; 1.4. Solving big Problems ; 1.5. Politics of Problem Solving.
  • 1.6. Nutrigenomics: the Case of Contemporary Nutrition Science 1.7. Structure of the Book ; 2. Navigating Large-Scale Research Practice ; 2.1. Studying Large-Scale Science ; 2.2. Entering and Charting the complex Field of Nutrigenomics ; 2.3. Particularities of Ethnography.
  • 2.3.1. The Outsider as Insider 2.3.2. Two Narratives on Interaction ; 2.4. Understanding Interaction as reciprocal Sensitisation ; 3. Making Large-Scale Nutrigenomics Work ; 3.1. The Birth of the Gut Health Programme ; 3.2. From Paper to Practice ; 3.3. Doability in Large-Scale Science.
  • 3.4. Food Industry as a Modular Adhesive 3.5. Sizing up Science to achieve Doability? ; 3.6. Health and Nutrition: making them doable; making them molecular ; 4. Walking the Line between Lab and Computation in Nutrition Science ; 4.1. Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity.
  • 4.2. From Paradigms to Styles of Science 4.3. Bittersweet Cooperation between 'wet' and 'dry' ; 4.4. The Power of Maps ; 4.5. Bridging and Redrawing the Boundary ; 4.6. Multiple Healths from multiple Styles ; 5. Personalised Nutrition. Is it doable?